I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can’t really move from it: it’s on buses, in stores, it’s everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies.
GARY OLDMANBut you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
More Gary Oldman Quotes
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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To be honest, Im a little tired of playing bad guys. I long to do a comedy. But it was fun knocking Indiana Jones around.
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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That’s the magic of it to me.
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I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father, and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up sometimes.
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I did have a knack for playing weirdos. There’s still sort of this perception of me out there as being this crazy guy.
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Shakespeare doesn’t really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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The script is your map of the world, isn’t it? And if someone knows that if it’s well-written, you get all of the beats, it will tell you everything you need to know.
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The thing a drama school can’t give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can’t be taught, and you have to have intuition. It’s an essential ingredient.
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I’m still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent – you get contaminated after so long.
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People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can’t get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.
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I know I’m pretty, but I ain’t as pretty as a couple of titties.
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Well, I needed the work – that’s the honest answer. I haven’t worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.
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I still don’t have a publicist. If I’m in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I’ll do as much as I can.
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I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven.
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